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Re:The Python yield keyword explained by phpnode on Sunday January 27, 2013 @03:02PM (#5125403)
stch - your account has been hell banned, for nearly a whole year.
Re:The Python yield keyword explained by phpnode on Sunday January 27, 2013 @06:06PM (#5126073)
(replying to myself because I can't reply to stch directly):

What does that mean/how does it affect me?

It means that only people who have specifically turned "showdead" on can see your posts. No one can reply to you posts directly. Your upvotes do nothing and don't count. But crucially, to you, everything seems completely normal.

And howd that happen?

An administrator decided that your first ever comment didn't fit the tone of this site (which it didn't, but well, you were new), so they decided to instantly and silently ban your account forever. So you have been commenting, for a year, and basically no one has seen your posts. I feel really bad about that and I hate this objectionable practise.

Re:The Python yield keyword explained by stch2 on Sunday January 27, 2013 @07:56PM (#5126480)
Wow, that's pretty ridiculous. You'd figure after a few months they'd tell me, right? Is that also why I get "Unknown or expired link" all the time and every page always takes 15-20 seconds to load? I noticed when I logged out that issue went away. I always just assumed the forum was really poorly designed. :o)
Re:The Python yield keyword explained by jlgreco on Monday January 28, 2013 @12:35AM (#5127307)
> Is that also why I get "Unknown or expired link"

No, that is just something HN does.